36 Weeks and 37 Weeks

How far along: 36 Weeks. We are officially in the month of June aka baby month!

Baby is the size of a: Head of Romaine Lettuce

Gender: Girl!

Weight gain: I am up a total of 12lbs. Thank you Texas heat for adding the unnecessary water weight!

Maternity clothes: Maternity clothes are actually getting uncomfortable. Everything is actually getting uncomfortable. 

Sleep: I somehow managed not to get up in pee in the middle of the night twice in the past week.

Aches and Pains: My back, my feet, my legs are swollen, I have to pee every time I change positions, I'm exhausted all the time but I know the end is near!

Best moment this week: A surprise baby shower at work! My co-workers are so sweet and organized a baby shower for myself and another pending parent. 

Worst moment this week:Moving, unpacking, organizing.

Miss anything: After moving more stuff on Saturday all I really wanted was a beer!

Movement: I really feel like she is running out of room. Her punches just aren't as powerful as they used to be but she still wiggles and squirms. 

Cravings: Salads with ranch dressing.

Looking forward to: Baby time! I can't wait to hold our baby girl!

How far along: 37 Weeks.

Baby is the size of a: Swiss Chard

Gender: Girl!

Weight gain: I haven't weighed myself in a while. With the amount of puff I see surrounding my cankles, its probably best. 

Maternity clothes: With the heat and the fact that nothing fits I am tempted to spend the remainder of this pregnancy in a nudest colony. 

Sleep: Is that still a thing? Insomnia hit the other night and I was up for hours. I almost did the dishes at 2am. 

Aches and Pains: It might be easier to list what doesn't ache at this point. 

Best moment this week:Getting to spend a lot of time with just Jon before the baby comes and our house is finally starting to come together. Still very messy but slowly getting there. 

Worst moment this week:River has been at his grandparents since June 1st and we won't get him back until Friday. We are missing that little guy like crazy!

Miss anything: I can't wait to have my normal body back!

Movement:She still moves all the time. She loves to push on my hips!

Cravings: No cravings at all. 

Looking forward to: Getting my little man back. Watching How to Train Your Dragon 2 this weekend and having a baby!

K’Lynn

35 Weeks

How far along: 35 Weeks.

Baby is the size of a: Honeydew melon.

Gender: Girl!

Weight gain: I haven't moved my scale this week but I know there is weight gain because my legs are back to being puffy!

Maternity clothes: This bump is getting so large that I feel like some of my maternity clothes are getting too small! While moving this week I started thinking about getting rid of some of my normal clothes that I just don't wear anymore, then I realized that is probably a horrible idea because I haven't worn anything in the past 5 months! Hopefully I don't nest my way out of a wardrobe!

Sleep: I've been so tired the past week that sleep is great! 

Aches and Pains: My back is killing me! 

Best moment this week: Our first night in our new house, Rivers graduation, Jon's birthday. So many good things the past week!

Worst moment this week: Moving, moving, moving.. and we still have so much to move!

Miss anything: Cocktails and pie.

Movement: This girl loves to move. She has found a way to kick my hip bones now, yay.

Cravings: All food. 

Looking forward to: My Dad is coming this weekend. I can't wait to spend some time with him! 

We have had such a busy week. We started moving everything to the new house which has been challenging to say the least. I have learned that I can not bend because when I do fires from the depths of hell come burning through my entire chest in the form of heartburn. Do you know how difficult it is it pack and move without bending at all? I have been just parking my butt on the floor and scooting around to pick up stuff. I look like a dog with worms, but at least I am getting the job done.

K’Lynn

34 Weeks!

How cute is this!?!

How far along: 34 Weeks.

Baby is the size of a: Cantaloupe, which sounds amazing by the way! 

Gender: Girl!

Weight gain: Because of a fun little stomach bug that went through the entire household this week I am down 3 pounds from last week but up 7 from pre-pregnancy. 

Maternity clothes: I officially can't wear my non maternity clothes. I mean I can, but its not flattering. 

Sleep: I have slept like a baby since I was sick. 

Aches and Pains: Restless leg syndrome a little but really not too bad!

Best moment this week: We closed on our house! 

Worst moment this week: Packing, painting, moving, being sick!

Miss anything: I want a glass of wine. Moving would be so much easier if I could drink wine when we are finished for the night. 

Movement: She is such a mover! I think she plays Dance Dance Revolution in there. 

Cravings: I was craving salad, but since getting sick all I want is carbs! 

Looking forward to: My little man is graduating Pre-Kindergarten today!  I can't wait to see him in his little cap and gown!

What a week! I have seen both of my doctors this week and both confirmed baby girl is looking good! They are estimating she weighs about 5.4lbs. They also both confirmed we are in the home stretch! How crazy is that? It won't be long before we have a baby!

Jon and I have been sneaking in fun things to do with River. We went to Gattiland on Sunday. River loved that since it was all playing video games and he doesn't get to do that often. He also loved that he got to watch Frozen on the big screen while he ate mac and cheese. He lost another tooth on Monday. I am loving his gap tooth grin! He has his Pre-K graduation, complete with cap and gown, tonight. Overall, this kid has had a really busy week! I can't wait for our 3 day weekend to pack, move, and hopefully sneak some pool time in, and celebrate Jon's 29th birthday!

K’Lynn

Baby Shower

We are incredibly blessed! I can't believe the amount of time and effort everyone put into our baby shower. Our little girl is so loved already. My heart is overfilled with joy!

The decorations were gorgeous. My sister in law puts Martha Stewart to shame. She knew we were doing a pink and gold themed nursery and used those colors for shower. I left with so many nursery decorations. She made the tissue paper poms, a burlap banner, a tissue paper banner, the vases for the flowers, the flower arrangements, and the monogrammed sign with baby girls initials. She seriously went above and beyond. The other hostesses made tons of yummy food which I shouldn't have eaten, but totally did! They even managed to score pink hamburger baskets!

Can you believe all the pink? I still don't think I can get over the fact baby girl is a GIRL!

We got tons and tons of gifts. Adorable baby girl clothes and tons of diapers topped the list. 

My Daddy and I. grandpa is so ready for another little girl to spoil! I really can't wait for Jon to get to experience the father-daughter relationship I shared with my Dad. 

My mother in law made this adorable quilt!

My brother Brad and his wife Kourtnee. They hosted the shower at their house. They both are amazing! Between all the D.I.Y. projects Kourtnee tackled and Brad grilling burgers for tons of people they seriously did more than I could have ever asked for! 

The rest of the hostesses, minus Nadja. These girls really made everything come together. I think they were just so excited that after 3 of us having 3 little boys we are finally getting a girl! Or they just really love me! I am so lucky and blessed to have such great friends!

Overall we had a blast. It was so much fun, the food was great, and we loved getting to spend time with our friends and families! 

K’Lynn

33 Weeks!

How far along: 33 Weeks.

Baby is the size of a: Pineapple. 

Gender: Girl!

Weight gain: I am up 10lbs from my pre-pregnancy weight. 

Maternity clothes: I bought a pair of maternity capri tights this week. I may not take them off until delivery!

Sleep: It really hasn't been that bad. I have been waking up way to early and am not able to fall back asleep but overall I don't feel horribly tired.

Aches and Pains: My lower back has been hurting. I take a warm bath every night and that helps so much!

Best moment this week: Our baby shower. We are so incredibly blessed!

Worst moment this week: I am still hating packing. 

Miss anything: I miss my normal body. 

Movement: This little girl moves like crazy. I don't know what I was thinking last week because I feel like as soon as I published the post she went crazy and hasn't stopped. 

Cravings:My cravings are so random and I usually get my fix that day. Earlier this week it was kale and last night it was shrimp. 

Looking forward to: We close on our house on Friday! I am so excited to finally get it over with!

This was such a great week and weekend. Our baby shower was amazing and I am going to write up a separate post for it. We are incredibly blessed with amazing friends and family! We have also been packing like crazy still. We are so excited to close on our house and get moved in. 

K’Lynn

32 Weeks

I don't have a picture of my bump to share this week. This was River eating his requested cheese sandwich for breakfast and Whispy watching one of our neighborhood bunnies hop around the yard. Usually when they are near one another River is tormenting her so to see them just hanging out together was a nice change.

How far along: 32 Weeks.

Baby is the size of a: Large jicama. 

Gender: Girl!

Weight gain: My scale must have had a really off day last Monday because I am up 10lbs from my pre-pregnancy weight and I know I haven't gained 5lbs this week. Even though I did have a small cup of Amy's Ice Cream one day! It was delicious and if it packed on 5lbs I don't care because it was so worth it!

Maternity clothes: I had one of those nothing-fits days yesterday and it took me forever to find something I felt comfortable in so I stole one of Jons v-neck shirts and wore that. It fit and was comfortable!

Sleep: It really just depends on the night. I toss and turn a lot and rolling over isn't as easy as it used to be so every time I change positions I wake up. 

Aches and Pains: My back has been hurting, my pelvic bone hurts, my abs are sore but I didn't have any Charley Horses this week! 

Best moment this week: We finished priming the crib. Its only taken over a month and we still aren't finishd, but I am happy we are at least taking small baby steps.

Worst moment this week: Packing. I hate packing!

Miss anything: Well since today is Cinco De Mayo I am obviously missing a margarita. Even a margarita flavored snow cone would have sufficed. 

Movement: I feel like she isn't moving around as crazily as she has been. She still moves a lot, I just think she doesn't have as much room to wiggle and squirm, which is actually kinda nice because I don't feel like she is ripping my insides apart!

Cravings: I have been wanting a soda so badly this week. Sodas and GD do not mix. At all. I had a few drinks of Jon's Mr. Pibb when we went to the movies on Saturday though and it didn't make my blood sugar go crazy and satisfied my craving. 

Looking forward to: Our baby shower on Saturday. I can't wait to see all of our friends and family!

This last week flew by. We found out that we will be able to move into our house on May 16, the day we close! We are really happy about that but also way behind on packing now. It is so hard to pack when I know we are moving right around the corner. I did manage to pack 5 boxes over the weekend before we ran out of packing tape. I am honestly just ready to get it all over with. Its frustrating not to be able to lift any boxes. This move should be very interesting since I feel like in our past moves I have done all of the boxes and Jon and friends moved all of the furniture. I guess this time I can waddle around moving clothes and blankets! Just cross your fingers we can move quickly and efficiently and that it doesn't take us a month to move everything. Also, lets hope I get some kinda of miraculous nesting energy to power through this!

K’Lynn

Water Balloons

What is the easiest way to become the coolest Mom on the block? Water balloons of course! 

Last Sunday was so hot and if our neighborhood pool had been open we would have been swimming but its not set to open until today and so River and I made do with water balloons. He had a blast just throwing them on the ground because "he doesn't like to get wet". I have no idea where that decision came from since last Summer I could turn on the water house and he would literally play for hours. Each time he would throw one on the ground he would point and yell "oooh did you see that one?". It was hilarious watching how excited he got. It was also hilarious that all of the big water balloons were named Grandpa. I love that he is still small enough that little things can entertain him for hours. I have been soaking up the time with him before the baby gets here and we are all much busier. He loves it too. He is such a sweet little mamas boy. 

K’Lynn

31 Weeks

How far along: 31 Weeks. This is flying by!

Baby is the size of a: Coconut. 

Gender: Girl!

Weight gain: Today my scale said I have gained 5lbs. Yesterday it said I had gained 9lbs. Either my scale is off or I lost 4lbs yesterday by doing nothing unless its water weight, but my legs are still swollen so I don't' think it is. 

Maternity clothes: I'm loving stretchy v-necks. I might just live in them for the next 9 weeks. 

Sleep: Sleep is awful Sunday night - Thursday night. It is wonderful on Friday night and Saturday night. I don't even sleep more on those nights, I just go to bed later and wake up later. My body just does not like waking up at 6am and I really hope this means baby girl is going to like sleeping in!

Aches and Pains: My stomach muscles are still sore in the morning when I wake up. Dr. Google says its because the positioning of the baby overnight. I plan on asking my doctor about next week at my appointment. I am also enjoying at least one middle of the night charlie horse during the week. 

Best moment this week: I finished the biggest project I was willing to tackle for baby girls nursery. I can't wait to show the pics but you'll have to wait until the nursery reveal. Which will be a while since we aren't moving for another month. I'll give you a hint. It has lots of pink and lots of ruffles!!

Worst moment this week: Just being sleepy. During the week almost every day I leave work thinking I am going to accomplish so many things but then when I get home I just want to lay down.

Miss anything: Stomach sleeping, being able to move about normally, and I could really use a glass of wine.

Movement: I think shes still small enough to move around like crazy. 

Cravings: Kale. Seriously, who craves kale while they are pregnant? Gestational Diabetes has officially made me crazy!

Looking forward to: I have so many wonderful things to look forward to. The next month is so busy and exciting!

Overall, I've had a good week. This weekend was so nice and relaxing. Our dryer was finally fixed and I was able to get a ton of laundry finished. It literally took all day and I spent over an hour folding clothes because I saved them all until the very end. I honestly have no idea what we were wearing, yet no one managed to leave the house in their underwear!

K’Lynn

GD and Baby Girl

Sweet baby girl's profile.

I went back to my maternal-fetal medicine specialist on Monday. Everything is looking good. I had an ultrasound and baby girl is looking great. She is measuring in the 50th percentile. That means if you compared her to 100 other 30 weeks  gestation babies she is right in the middle. Not too big and not too small. She is weighing approximately 3.10 lbs +/- 10 ounces. Her limbs and head are measuring slightly ahead. She must take after her Dad and brother! While the tech was doing the scan we could see her sticking her tongue out and smacking her lips. The tech also pointed out that she was also practicing breathing. Its so amazing we can see all of this long before babies are even born. 

My blood glucose numbers still look good. I am still allowed to only track 2 days a week provided I stick to the diet. I have done really good but did try to sneak in some jelly beans on Easter. It made my numbers a lot higher than normal so it looks like I won't be testing out any more candies! One big thing about this diet is it is constant trial and error. I feel like I am always testing my body just to see what it can handle. I've really only found a few foods that it can't. Jelly beans and mini cupcakes are at the top of the list! That is ok, I really don't need them anyway! 

K’Lynn

30 Weeks!

How far along: 30 weeks! Officially 3/4 of the way done. 

Baby is the size of a: Cabbage.

Gender: Girl. I still can't believe I get to say that! 

Weight gain: This morning my scale said 8 lbs. It fluctuates so much! I never know if I am going to be up or down from the previous week. I'm not too worried about it because regardless of what the scale says I feel like a whale. Especially when I am trying to roll over at night. I might as well be an upside down turtle!

Maternity clothes: I found a dress in my closet that I can officially wear as a shirt. My bump is taking on a life of its own and making all my shirts borderline too short!

Sleep: Some nights its good some nights its horrible.

Aches and Pains: This week my stomach muscles have started hurting. I guess they are getting a good stretch in, but they'd better get used to it because we still have 10 weeks to go. 

Best moment this week: This was such a good week! Between Easter, visiting with my in-laws, and seeing Aziz Ansari, we had a great week!

Worst moment this week: Faxing so many pages for our home loan. I never have good luck when using a fax machine. I finally managed to make it work but I was imagining me pregnancy hulk out and smash it to pieces with my giant green hands the entire time. 

Miss anything: I want to say that I miss wine, but I imagine it would only make me sleepy!

Movement: This girl loves to wiggle and squirm. I love it until she decides she wants to stretch out as far as possible, then that hurts!

Cravings: Walnuts. I eat so many walnuts everyday. 

Looking forward to: Relaxing next weekend with my boys! It may be one of our last free weekends for a while!

K’Lynn

Happy Easter!

We had the best Easter weekend! 

On Saturday Jon's parents came to town. His mom and I spent the day shopping around for chalk paint and knobs for a dresser she is redoing for baby girls room, while the boys did boring man stuff like put tires on Jon's car. We had a blast just going from shop to shop.

That night Jon and I met up with some of our favorite friends and saw Aziz Ansari. It was so nice to get out of the house for a little while without River in tow. We don't really go on a lot of grown up dates so this was a special treat for us. The show was good too, even though I caught myself yawning a lot. I'm just not used to going all day long anymore! 

The next morning River was so excited to see that the Easter Bunny had come in the night and filled his basket with goodies. He brought him a dragon, some candy, and  48 pack of crayola sidewalk chalk. Mama is really excited about the last one. I have a feeling we will be doing lots of sidewalk coloring for as long as I am able to get up and down with ease. Mom and Dad gave River a new movie, a giant chocolate bunny, and a chocolate cross. The Easter Bunny would have given those to River, but River saw those in the closet a few weeks ago. Being a parent and hiding all this from inquisitive little minds is so difficult, and we obviously need better hiding spots.

The Easter Bunny also hid eggs all over our back yard. River got to enjoy his last Easter being an only child and getting all the eggs to himself. He actually got tired of hunting for a little while and excused himself to go pee! His favorite part was finding a little Easter Slug on a hard boiled egg.

After the egg hunt we had a big Easter breakfast with pancakes, biscuits, eggs, sausage, and bacon. I made River this adorable bunny pancake with M&M eyes (stolen from his Easter basket) and bacon whiskers.

We have spent the rest of the day relaxing while River as scarfed down M&Ms, jelly beans, and chocolate. We finally put a stop to it when it became apparent all that sugar wasn't ever going to make him sick! 

K’Lynn

Why our lives are so busy right now.

I was looking over the blog and I realized two things. One, all I write about is my pregnancy and two I only post once a week. I'm sorry. I will try to do better. I'll start by filling you in on what is going on in our lives other than the pregnancy.

We are buying a house!

I feel so blessed to even be able to say that. The housing market in the Austin area is crazy. Absolutely crazy! Everything moves so quickly. To give you an idea when we told our Realtor we were interested in shopping around for a house she asked us to go on her website and pick three houses to look at. I did that on a Thursday and we set up a time to get together on Sunday morning. She called on Saturday to tell us every house we had wanted to see was gone. That is when we realized that we would need to move fast if we wanted to get a house in this market. The house we are in the process of purchasing was listed at 4 pm on a Saturday. We viewed the house on Sunday at 10 am and decided we wanted to put an offer in on the house. We quickly did our initial paperwork and our Realtor submitted it. She called us back at 4 pm to let us know there were multiple offers on the house! Like I said, I feel incredibly blessed just to be able to say we are actually purchasing a home.

We are set to close on May 16 and we will get to move in May 23. That will give us 5 weeks to get settled in before baby girl arrives. She has to stay put long enough for us to get the nursery finished. One great perk of the house is it already has a pink room. Its a little brighter than I would have liked but I can't really justify repainting a pink room pink. Lots of pink was in my plan anyway!

This is the house. It is the photo from the realty website so I apologize its not that great, but imagine how much better looking it will be once I get my hands on it!

This, work, growing a baby and keeping up with a 5 year old has left us exhausted. I feel like we are constantly on the go! I can't wait until the move is over and the baby is here! I'm sure I will be exhausted then too but it will be all worth it!

K’Lynn

29 Weeks!

How far along: 29 Weeks!

Baby is the size of a: Butternut Squash.

Gender: Girl!

Weight gain: 7lbs.

Maternity clothes: Oh yes!

Sleep: I spoke too soon last week. Getting to sleep this past week has not been great. I hate laying on my sides to fall asleep. Restless leg syndrome is killing me. My hips hurt. My back hurts. I have to get up to pee. I wake up and can't go back to sleep. Charlie horses. I could go on and on.

Aches and Pains:I think I described everything above well enough. RLS is the biggest annoyance. I also had a hormonal meltdown moment where I became crazy angry for no reason. It was directed toward no one and I kept getting more and more mad because I couldn't even explain why I was mad to begin with. 

Best moment this week: Taking River to an Easter Egg hunt. He was so sweet and nervous. He was clutching my hand and asked me to go with him. I love when he is still my sweet little boy. I know these moments won't last much longer so I enjoy every second of them when I can!

Worst moment this week: I can't really pin point any bad moments. 

Miss anything: Chocolate.

Movement: This little girl moves all the time. She can be painful!

Cravings: Sweets. I want sugar. 

Looking forward to: Easter! Jon's parents are also coming in this weekend so we are really excited about that!

K’Lynn

Gestational Diabetes Week Two

I have officially survived two weeks of blood glucose monitoring. It really hasn't been that bad. I have managed to get into a routine. Mornings are still difficult as River and I are always rushing to get out of the door to get him to school and me to work at a decent time. I am so blessed that neither one of us have to be at work or school at an absolute set time. Otherwise we would be getting a lot of tardy slips! 

I am still eating 3 regular meals and 3 snacks per day. However, since my numbers have been good and my doctor said I no longer have to test my glucose after meals every day, just a few days a week. I will still be testing my fasting (pre-breakfast) number everyday. We need to monitor this one as most people have the most problems with it. I have been lucky so far and haven't had any trouble. My bed time snack of crunch peanut butter on one slice of glycemic index bread and a small glass of milk seem to be keeping my fasting number controlled.

I have also given up on switching between my middle and ring finger for the testing. I somehow managed a very painful stick in my right finger and I haven't gotten the courage to try again. My poor middle finger gets all the pokes now, but surprisingly it doesn't look bad. I still have to work up the courage every stick. I'm not sure that will go away!

K’Lynn

28 Weeks

How far along: 28 Weeks. That means I'm officially in my third trimester! How crazy and exciting is that!?! 

Baby is the size of a: Large eggplant. 

Gender: Sweet baby girl!

Weight gain: This morning my scale said I was up 6lbs from my pre-pregnancy weight. I'm not sure how that happened. I knew I had lost around 3 lbs from my last doctors appointment but I was shocked when they told me 6! I have been following my GD diet, walking more, and drinking a ton of water! My doctor isn't worried and said that everything looks great so I'm not worried either!

Maternity clothes: Yes but I still find myself trying to squeeze into normal clothes. When this pregnancy is over all of my clothes are going to be stretched out!

Sleep: I really have no problem falling asleep or staying asleep. I manage to sleep in the same position all night and as soon as I move my bladder realizes its full and wakes me up, thankfully this only happens once a night!

Aches and Pains:Lots of restless leg syndrome this week and I was very queasy a few mornings. I hope morning sickness doesn't come back!

Best moment this week: Jon and I put an offer in on a house and it was accepted! We are so excited! 

Worst moment this week: Not getting to sleep in on Saturday morning. We had a garage sale so I had to be up super early. Then it was so cold all Saturday morning!

Miss anything: I walked through the wine aisle at HEB last night. I should not have done that. All I could think about was how much I can't wait to have a glass of red wine. 

Movement: This girl is such a mover. I feel her all the time! The nurse almost couldn't get a heartbeat at my appointment this week because she was moving around so much. 

Cravings: I still don't have any real cravings! I never really did with River either.

Looking forward to: Easter! This will be one of the first years I don't get to go to my home church for Easter and I am so sad. We are going to take River to our neighborhood Easter egg hunt this weekend and then on Easter morning I plan on hiding some eggs in our back yard for him to find. 

I didn't have a picture to share (again) so I thought River playing with a lady bug would suffice. He is all about bugs this Spring! He's been finding tiny black bugs and putting them in a bucket with grass and a small lid with water. Then he starts feeling guilty and releases them! Its so sweet! He played with the lady bug in the picture above for at least 30 minutes. He would pick it up and it would crawl on him for a few seconds then fly away and then he would chase it down. He always reminds me to appreciate the small things, even the lady bugs!

K’Lynn